Talk:Treaty of Tien-Tsin between the Queen of Great Britain and the Emperor of China

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Are the brackets in the original? During this period, "Taiwan" would have referred to the port of Taiwanfu (i.e., Dutch Zelandia or present-day Tainan) and not the entire island of Taiwandao (i.e., Formosa). Cf. also the discussion at "" in the 9th ed. of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, where they talk about how the British attempted to open Taiwanfu and then opted to switch to Tam-sui in the north. — LlywelynII  04:12, 12 March 2019 (UTC)